‘Mocha. Certain Surat merchants request that protection may be afforded to their Agents & merchandize in the Red Sea’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Mocha. Certain Surat merchants request that protection may be afforded to their Agents & merchandize in the Red Sea’
- Date:
- 1840/1841
- Description:
- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; merchants from Surat; William Augustus Pelly, Collector of Continental Customs and Excise.The item concerns a petition from the merchants of Surat asking that their agents and merchandise in the Red Sea might be protected; all British subjects are offered help in removing their property from Mocha when it was about to be evacuated by the Egyptian troops.The item includes a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Collection No. 10, Draft 31, P.C. [Previous Communication] 3302, [Season] 1842’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 255 and terminates at f 261, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Trade (practice)
Merchants - Geographic region:
- Mocha
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000290.0x000015_ar
81055/vdc_100000000290.0x000015_en
IOR/F/4/1929/82840
IOR/F/4/1929/82840